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Scrimgeour packs a life into a single piece of poetry, disrupting the form and enlarging its wisdom. A book to keep beside you during this moment of intensified doubt and humanity.” —Michelle Tea https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/poems daily 0.75 2025-04-11 https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/the-last-miles daily 0.75 2026-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606535038968-YZYTKRLB8FHWZKTT7AQB/CoverFestPromo.jpg The Last Miles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606533184005-GYBXJ9OI808U4DDPZ5Z2/liftingcover.jpg The Last Miles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606591204877-VPZTGXMUBYUM08BLFELZ/themescover.jpg The Last Miles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1608851832072-K4KVIFBN0YM8IWS1TFRU/confluence.jpg The Last Miles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1608851792078-ZUFII609RDIEQ9IPF6GU/10003693_473057179495072_2121001503159177076_o.jpg The Last Miles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606606611990-SGXAFGZXO781HYE5BJ6I/cover.jpg The Last Miles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606607330228-EAN0X4S30GEU2ZUQPXKZ/territories.png The Last Miles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1607220848850-ZHOEJ49L3DVREGM1EKHD/bigjds-183x300.jpg The Last Miles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1620787126619-74YDH3G65AYC2BVMEEF5/0.jpg The Last Miles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/6bf2a902-8051-4c6f-bf0b-35adf94eee69/small+rectangluar+cover+final+final.jpg The Last Miles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/b69b35cd-1bb0-45fd-ba64-208c2ef401f2/PIHSPcover.jpg The Last Miles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606606611990-SGXAFGZXO781HYE5BJ6I/cover.jpg The Last Miles - The Last Miles “The intelligence, sensitivity and humor of these poems are a gift to the reader. In the tradition of Langston Hughes, J.D. Scrimgeour writes with the pioneering spirit of a jazz musician. His work travels from Normal, Illinois to Greece to Salem, Massachusetts and takes place over one hundred years. The poems are precise and powerful, but it is the range that is extraordinary; there has never been a wider cast of characters in a book of poetry. We meet adolescent baseball players, a Greek grandmother, a father who is a poet, street people in Salem, two infant boys, and many more. Wasn’t this Whitman’s dream: to reveal the miraculous power of the ordinary man? J.D. Scrimgeour’s America is composed of people we might walk past, unless, like this poet, we stop and listen to what they have to tell us.” – Charlotte Gordon, author of Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter, Mary Shelley “These poems scrutinize, celebrate and rue the comings and goings that mark the lives of individuals and cities and nations. They overturn the easy assumptions in favor of a gaze that is clear-eyed but compassionate. J.D. Scrimgeour’s sheer honesty is moving and, in its way, beautiful.” — Baron Wormser “The son of a poet, Scrimgeour has the ambition to tackle big themes—not just love and death, but the unbearable gap between the joy of some and the suffering of others—while eschewing even the slightest whiff of poetic overreaching. He can handle long narrative poems or composite sketches of place, and make himself as real to us as a character in a novel—that is, someone who’s more vivid to us than we often are within our own lives. If these poems are as lucid as good prose, they have a subtle skip to their step too—as if the poet’s on the way to the courts where the guys he plays pickup with would recognize him as the genuine article, a real player. One of the most readable and moving collections I’ve come across in many a year.” —Alan Feldman https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/ogunquit-other-works-cd daily 0.75 2020-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606608199463-0MZ6E7K2P3XFHAYSVWE1/confluence.jpg Ogunquit & Other Works (CD) - Ogunquit & Other Works Ogunquit, a blend of poetry and music, was released by MSR Classics. The CD was produced by Richard Price, and, in addition to poems by J.D. Scrimgeour, includes poetry by Rilke, Alan Feldman, and Yusef Komunyakaa. All the poems on the CD, whether elegiac or celebratory, refer to music and acknowledge its power to move listeners. They explore the relation between words and sound, an exploration that is at the heart of Confluence. “Poet J.D. Scrimgeour and musician-composer Philip Swanson are engaged in a fascinating endeavor, exploring the parallel and entwined paths of syncopated poetry and meditative melody. Swanson’s piano and trombone passages are much more than ‘accompaniment,’ and Scrimgeour’s recited verse are not merely ‘lyrics.’ Both of these artists are deeply grounded in the classic literature of their respective traditions, and the results of this dynamic collaboration are resonant, eloquent, and enjoyable. Our audience for their performance in Robert Frost’s old barn were transported.” — Jim Schley, poet, former director of The Frost Place and author of As When, In Season https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/festival daily 0.75 2026-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606535038968-YZYTKRLB8FHWZKTT7AQB/CoverFestPromo.jpg Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606533184005-GYBXJ9OI808U4DDPZ5Z2/liftingcover.jpg Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606591204877-VPZTGXMUBYUM08BLFELZ/themescover.jpg Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1608851832072-K4KVIFBN0YM8IWS1TFRU/confluence.jpg Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1608851792078-ZUFII609RDIEQ9IPF6GU/10003693_473057179495072_2121001503159177076_o.jpg Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606606611990-SGXAFGZXO781HYE5BJ6I/cover.jpg Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606607330228-EAN0X4S30GEU2ZUQPXKZ/territories.png Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1607220848850-ZHOEJ49L3DVREGM1EKHD/bigjds-183x300.jpg Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1620787126619-74YDH3G65AYC2BVMEEF5/0.jpg Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/6bf2a902-8051-4c6f-bf0b-35adf94eee69/small+rectangluar+cover+final+final.jpg Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/b69b35cd-1bb0-45fd-ba64-208c2ef401f2/PIHSPcover.jpg Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606535038968-YZYTKRLB8FHWZKTT7AQB/CoverFestPromo.jpg Festival - festival Inspired by the ancient Chinese poets, who wrote direct, casual verse to poet-friends, this book of eight-line poems sketches poets the author has known. Subjects range from notable American poets, such as Frank Bidart and Yusef Komunyakaa, to the eclectic circle of writers on the North Shore of Massachusetts. DP The ocean deepens in the dark. The small lights of this eastern city come on. Once the sun has been set free, Who knows if it will return. At your table, our group scrutinizes stories. When your wife arrives from New Orleans, You hurry to her and embrace her so fully All our faces become flowers. https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/press daily 0.75 2026-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1607226247897-KIQMH8NNTUDQLC2FY1EF/jdglassesbw.jpg Press “I’ve never been in therapy. That’s probably because I played basketball.” from J.D.’s Third Quarter interview in Sport Literate https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/themes-for-english-b daily 0.75 2020-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606535038968-YZYTKRLB8FHWZKTT7AQB/CoverFestPromo.jpg Themes For English B https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606533184005-GYBXJ9OI808U4DDPZ5Z2/liftingcover.jpg Themes For English B https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606591204877-VPZTGXMUBYUM08BLFELZ/themescover.jpg Themes For English B https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1608851832072-K4KVIFBN0YM8IWS1TFRU/confluence.jpg Themes For English B https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1608851792078-ZUFII609RDIEQ9IPF6GU/10003693_473057179495072_2121001503159177076_o.jpg Themes For English B https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606606611990-SGXAFGZXO781HYE5BJ6I/cover.jpg Themes For English B https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606607330228-EAN0X4S30GEU2ZUQPXKZ/territories.png Themes For English B https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1607220848850-ZHOEJ49L3DVREGM1EKHD/bigjds-183x300.jpg Themes For English B https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1620787126619-74YDH3G65AYC2BVMEEF5/0.jpg Themes For English B https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/039fa37a-51ad-454e-b983-93c45b557823/small+rectangluar+cover+final+final.jpg Themes For English B https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/c88c6520-13dd-48d9-9d41-effbde559f30/PIHSPcover.jpg Themes For English B https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606591204877-VPZTGXMUBYUM08BLFELZ/themescover.jpg Themes For English B - Themes For English B In Themes for English B a teacher ponders the nature of meaningful learning, both in and beyond the classroom. J.D. Scrimgeour contrasts his Ivy League education to the experiences of his students at a small public college in a faded, gritty New England city. What little Scrimgeour knows of the burdens his students bring to class—family crises, dead-end jobs, overdue bills—leaves him humbled. Fighting disenchantment with the ideals of higher education, Scrimgeour writes, “How much I owe these students, how much I have learned. They know the score; they know they are losing by a lot before the game even begins, and they shrug, as if to say, ‘What am I supposed to do, cry?'” Scrimgeour’s obligations to his students and his hopes for them glance off each other and sometimes collide with the realities of the classroom: the unread assignments and the empty desks. Is there too great a student-teacher divide? Can Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, or any other writer Scrimgeour teaches have something to say to a single mother with a full course load, two jobs, a sick kid, and a broken car? Yes, it turns out, and it is magic when it happens. “Writing organizes life. J.D. Scrimgeour lays his life out like themes on a desk. Here a paper on teaching; there a paper on basketball—all the papers full and rich with wonder and thought, all the themes A’s, teaching and delighting, making readers ponder their own lives.” —Sam Pickering, author of Letters to a Teacher https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/only-human daily 0.75 2021-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606603499092-6Y91ZVGXXPS3LXDVXSGO/10446323_840561995955719_6782373417066454538_o.jpg Only Human (A Musical) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606603135693-DVL5BGYMMSH7GS2S17IQ/10517665_842083799136872_1556069266079091146_o.jpg Only Human (A Musical) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606603253812-E87H5CT63WVXW3JTE248/10295109_842084089136843_1948317541306513932_o.jpg Only Human (A Musical) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606603755320-YX6TPNFUP1OB80DND3QA/10448700_840562509289001_7368493278773577346_o.jpg Only Human (A Musical) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606592690325-XUBFQ2WCQTVIO4EZ4MR8/10003693_473057179495072_2121001503159177076_o.jpg Only Human (A Musical) - Only Human Only Human is an original musical about a small town, a movie star, humanity, death, and pigs. The show introduces us to the rural townsfolk of Blump, who distract themselves from life’s harder truths with celebrity worship and the stories they tell each other. But what are they really ignoring, and are they even human at all? The citizens sing and dance about humanity, mortality, celebrity and the trials of a person’s– or is it a pig’s?–life. Book and lyrics by J.D. Scrimgeour and music by Aidan and Guthrie Scrimgeour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606602022280-J5F2T7K2V3BFOW1M9PT4/10357719_840562339289018_973416630649439998_o.jpg Only Human (A Musical) - “…the entire cast is friendly, downright lovable, and every cast member gets lines and a piece of the action. “And the poetry of lyrics— almost every song— helps that energy to get realized. The lyrics invite cast members to cross over the fences that hold them — out of the small back yards in their small, slaughterhouse town. They confront the awful sound of Blump. Like the characters in other American musicals, they find “a new way of living.” – Mark Schorr, Mass Poetry Boston Globe article on Only Human https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/fiction daily 0.75 2020-12-06 https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-12-06 https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/territories daily 0.75 2026-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606535038968-YZYTKRLB8FHWZKTT7AQB/CoverFestPromo.jpg Territories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606533184005-GYBXJ9OI808U4DDPZ5Z2/liftingcover.jpg Territories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606591204877-VPZTGXMUBYUM08BLFELZ/themescover.jpg Territories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1608851832072-K4KVIFBN0YM8IWS1TFRU/confluence.jpg Territories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1608851792078-ZUFII609RDIEQ9IPF6GU/10003693_473057179495072_2121001503159177076_o.jpg Territories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606606611990-SGXAFGZXO781HYE5BJ6I/cover.jpg Territories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606607330228-EAN0X4S30GEU2ZUQPXKZ/territories.png Territories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1607220848850-ZHOEJ49L3DVREGM1EKHD/bigjds-183x300.jpg Territories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1620787126619-74YDH3G65AYC2BVMEEF5/0.jpg Territories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/6bf2a902-8051-4c6f-bf0b-35adf94eee69/small+rectangluar+cover+final+final.jpg Territories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/b69b35cd-1bb0-45fd-ba64-208c2ef401f2/PIHSPcover.jpg Territories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606607330228-EAN0X4S30GEU2ZUQPXKZ/territories.png Territories - Territories Territories (The Last Automat Press, 2013) contains three long poems. “Territory” and “Cirinna” are dramatic monologues in the voices of students at a state university. “Territory” and “Cirinna” have been performed by actors at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival and other venues. “A God’s Child,” the third poem, tells a mythic story set in motion by acts in a small Greek village early in the last century. Under the title, “The Baby,” the poem was a Poetry Finalist with the Massachusetts Cultural Council, 2008. “A God’s Child” has been set to music and performed by Confluence https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/spinmoves daily 0.75 2026-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606535038968-YZYTKRLB8FHWZKTT7AQB/CoverFestPromo.jpg Spin Moves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606533184005-GYBXJ9OI808U4DDPZ5Z2/liftingcover.jpg Spin Moves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606591204877-VPZTGXMUBYUM08BLFELZ/themescover.jpg Spin Moves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1608851832072-K4KVIFBN0YM8IWS1TFRU/confluence.jpg Spin Moves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1608851792078-ZUFII609RDIEQ9IPF6GU/10003693_473057179495072_2121001503159177076_o.jpg Spin Moves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606606611990-SGXAFGZXO781HYE5BJ6I/cover.jpg Spin Moves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606607330228-EAN0X4S30GEU2ZUQPXKZ/territories.png Spin Moves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1607220848850-ZHOEJ49L3DVREGM1EKHD/bigjds-183x300.jpg Spin Moves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1620787126619-74YDH3G65AYC2BVMEEF5/0.jpg Spin Moves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/6bf2a902-8051-4c6f-bf0b-35adf94eee69/small+rectangluar+cover+final+final.jpg Spin Moves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/b69b35cd-1bb0-45fd-ba64-208c2ef401f2/PIHSPcover.jpg Spin Moves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1607220848850-ZHOEJ49L3DVREGM1EKHD/bigjds-183x300.jpg Spin Moves - Spin Moves “Spin Moves is basketball as a literary musical, a world that has its own soundtrack (with varied time signatures) as well as its own language. In this pickup game of motion and nuance, every character knows that moving rhythmically is the best way to communicate. Sometimes it’s a mesmerizing crossover dribble; sometimes it’s a guard’s quick glance and lob to the power forward. When spoken dialogue is required, there is time for only exclamatory shards of the language: by yourself! back door! Pick right! The movement and pacing in Scrimgeour’s essay is so complete that, when you finish reading, you’ll want to practice your finger roll.” —Michael Holley, Sports Commentator, WEEI. https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/bananabread daily 0.75 2026-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/37ee1fc8-47bb-4b02-b8b9-ba2d3db58b86/PIHSPcover.jpg Banana Bread https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/be194920-6ae9-4219-8bd7-f495063b6fdf/small+rectangluar+cover+final+final.jpg Banana Bread https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1620787126619-74YDH3G65AYC2BVMEEF5/0.jpg Banana Bread https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606535038968-YZYTKRLB8FHWZKTT7AQB/CoverFestPromo.jpg Banana Bread https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1607214680164-N53K3XE3HVT810I7C8K3/liftingcover.jpg Banana Bread https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606591204877-VPZTGXMUBYUM08BLFELZ/themescover.jpg Banana Bread https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606608199463-0MZ6E7K2P3XFHAYSVWE1/confluence.jpg Banana Bread https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606607330228-EAN0X4S30GEU2ZUQPXKZ/territories.png Banana Bread https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606606611990-SGXAFGZXO781HYE5BJ6I/cover.jpg Banana Bread https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1608851792078-ZUFII609RDIEQ9IPF6GU/10003693_473057179495072_2121001503159177076_o.jpg Banana Bread https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1607220848850-ZHOEJ49L3DVREGM1EKHD/bigjds-183x300.jpg Banana Bread https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1620787126619-74YDH3G65AYC2BVMEEF5/0.jpg Banana Bread - 香蕉面包 Banana Bread Mandarin Pandemic Diary In March of 2020, when the Covid pandemic struck the U.S., J.D. Scrimgeour began writing diary poems in Mandarin to help him learn the language. He then translated them into English. As he writes in the first poem, “It is difficult to use Chinese/ I only have a few words. I have many feelings.” “I seldom see American poets write in Chinese. J.D. Scrimgeour is a special case. It's amazing for an American to write such wonderful poems in idiomatic Chinese. I particularly appreciate the methods of word-play and humor used in these beautiful poems.” —Zhang Ziqing, Poet, Translator, Scholar, author of A History of 20th Century American Poetry “Among the important ingredients for studying Mandarin, there is the practice of play, as language study across as many chasms as exist between English and Mandarin requires many leaps of faith. What better theme than baking banana bread. The poems here are as much a display of the process of language acquisition as the generous sharing of what helped bring one poet through the havoc wreaked by COVID-19. The world survives, and so does the propensity of Scrimgeour to not only play, but to give.” —Afaa Michael Weaver https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/the-distance-between-us-1 daily 0.75 2025-01-31 https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/that-was-then-v1 daily 0.75 2025-01-31 https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/turquoise-moon-1 daily 0.75 2025-01-31 https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/new-album daily 0.75 2025-01-31 https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/srrw daily 0.75 2026-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606535038968-YZYTKRLB8FHWZKTT7AQB/CoverFestPromo.jpg Small Rectangular Reflected World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606533184005-GYBXJ9OI808U4DDPZ5Z2/liftingcover.jpg Small Rectangular Reflected World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606591204877-VPZTGXMUBYUM08BLFELZ/themescover.jpg Small Rectangular Reflected World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1608851832072-K4KVIFBN0YM8IWS1TFRU/confluence.jpg Small Rectangular Reflected World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1608851792078-ZUFII609RDIEQ9IPF6GU/10003693_473057179495072_2121001503159177076_o.jpg Small Rectangular Reflected World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606606611990-SGXAFGZXO781HYE5BJ6I/cover.jpg Small Rectangular Reflected World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606607330228-EAN0X4S30GEU2ZUQPXKZ/territories.png Small Rectangular Reflected World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1607220848850-ZHOEJ49L3DVREGM1EKHD/bigjds-183x300.jpg Small Rectangular Reflected World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1620787126619-74YDH3G65AYC2BVMEEF5/0.jpg Small Rectangular Reflected World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/6bf2a902-8051-4c6f-bf0b-35adf94eee69/small+rectangluar+cover+final+final.jpg Small Rectangular Reflected World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/b69b35cd-1bb0-45fd-ba64-208c2ef401f2/PIHSPcover.jpg Small Rectangular Reflected World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/4f6c3ea9-9c31-4cdf-bc23-4277745f3e52/small+rectangluar+cover+final+final.jpg Small Rectangular Reflected World - Small, Rectangular, Reflected World “When has love ever known / how to follow a map or behave?” J. D. Scrimgeour asks in this riveting collection, which journeys near and far—to the local thrift store, Red Sox game, and neighborhood as well as to Langston Hughes’ Harlem, Chinese dissidents laboring in coal mines, and Thoreau petting fish in the Concord River. True to the book’s title, these poems offer small rectangular reflections of the world, enabling us to see beyond superficies as we strive to understand and repair some of what we find broken. In the concluding tour de force, “Words, Days, Flames,” Scrimgeour riffs from Virgil’s Aeneid to examine how we might maintain our humanity in the late days of empire. This is a timely, highly crafted book from a poet tender in his terror and brave in his clear sight. - Heather Treseler, author of Auguries & Divinations, Hard Bargain, and Parturition https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/poetinhighstreetpark daily 0.75 2026-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606535038968-YZYTKRLB8FHWZKTT7AQB/CoverFestPromo.jpg Poet in High Street Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606533184005-GYBXJ9OI808U4DDPZ5Z2/liftingcover.jpg Poet in High Street Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606591204877-VPZTGXMUBYUM08BLFELZ/themescover.jpg Poet in High Street Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1608851832072-K4KVIFBN0YM8IWS1TFRU/confluence.jpg Poet in High Street Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1608851792078-ZUFII609RDIEQ9IPF6GU/10003693_473057179495072_2121001503159177076_o.jpg Poet in High Street Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606606611990-SGXAFGZXO781HYE5BJ6I/cover.jpg Poet in High Street Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606607330228-EAN0X4S30GEU2ZUQPXKZ/territories.png Poet in High Street Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1607220848850-ZHOEJ49L3DVREGM1EKHD/bigjds-183x300.jpg Poet in High Street Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1620787126619-74YDH3G65AYC2BVMEEF5/0.jpg Poet in High Street Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/6bf2a902-8051-4c6f-bf0b-35adf94eee69/small+rectangluar+cover+final+final.jpg Poet in High Street Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/b69b35cd-1bb0-45fd-ba64-208c2ef401f2/PIHSPcover.jpg Poet in High Street Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/5d634dae-a92d-4ce3-b7f1-07bfc0e4d601/PIHSPcover.jpg Poet in High Street Park - Poet in High Street Park Salem, Massachusetts’s poet laureate J.D. Scrimgeour’s new book of poems and prose, Poet in High Street Park (Loom), is a powerful portrait of a place. Scrimgeour writes of Salem, “this city unafraid of the undead,” a city he’s called home for thirty years, its people, its personality, its hard-knockery and down-and-outery (“I write of basements flooded / and duct-taped cars”), its bricks, its breaths, its beauty. “Heard the weather last night / hurting the shore.” He writes of fathers and sons, of Little League fields, of what it is to live in a city so freighted with history, “a nation’s first millionaire, / first telephone. The founder of kindergarten,” and much deeper, darker history than that. “Looking backward, we can see what wasn’t, / and then what was. Cautions and wonders.” Cautions and wonders — it could’ve been an alternative title for the collection, capturing as it does what was and what is now, the dangers, the traps, the awe on offer. https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/home-1 daily 1.0 2026-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/1606535038968-YZYTKRLB8FHWZKTT7AQB/CoverFestPromo.jpg Home (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/388b0446-56cc-47c9-98be-b7998f1a392b/0.jpg Home (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/295d2938-8f7f-47b8-bf58-65e1f15748d6/PIHSPcover.jpg Home (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/acebf082-132f-4880-b5e8-2bb0e30a8542/small+rectangluar+cover+final+final.jpg Home (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/a8f86153-ad41-4964-b4c3-4c8ea2bd0c14/PIHSPcover.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbffff95687f52b6b7c1feb/4f6c3ea9-9c31-4cdf-bc23-4277745f3e52/small+rectangluar+cover+final+final.jpg https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/readings daily 0.75 2024-02-10 https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/readings/grolier monthly 0.5 2024-02-10 https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/readings/v/something-new-a-35year-artistic-journey monthly 0.5 2024-09-12 https://www.jdscrimgeour.com/readings/v/hosted-with-custom-z9ehj-dwh9x-3y83f monthly 0.5 2024-02-10